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Get Involved - DFD Activity packages

Donate to Document Freedom

Keep posters printing, politicans being contacted, and awards being presented by donating to Document Freedom Day.

Distribute our posters

Get some posters delivered and put them up, or download and print your own. Request some posters.

Materials:

• posters
• a photo camera

Timeline:

• few days before - install your posters, take a picture of it
• 28th of March - publish the picture using the tag #dfd

Can't read your document poster

The idea here is that people write something on a poster, e.g. "I cannot read your documents". Then take a picture of them with the sign in front of a public institution and publish the picture.

Materials:

• a photo camera
• DFD artwork
• paper

Timeline:

• 2 weeks before - do some research about public administrations in your city.
• 1 weeks before - prepare your poster
• few days before - take the picture
• 28th of March - publish the picture using the tag #dfd

Promote open formats in public library

Librarians should be easy to convince about the usefulness of Open Standards. Have leaflets in the library or be there and inform visitor. E.g. use a old book and ask them if they would like to read this book in an electronic format, in 10 years.

Materials:

• DFD artwork
• DFD leaflets

Timeline:

• 2 weeks before - find a public library, talk with them about the topic and ask them if you can have leaflets there and talk with visitors
• 1 week before - print leaflets and find friends to help you
• 28th of March - use your creativity and inspiration to explain people why open document formats are important

Give an award

If there is a organisation or company which you think is a good example in the field of open standards you can recognize their effort and support their activities by giving them an award.

Materials:

• T-Shirts
• Cake
• Certificate

Timeline:

• few weeks before - contact the awarded organisation or company
• 2 weeks before - order t-shirts for your group
• 1 weeks before - write a press release (example)
• some days before - print out the certificate
• a day before - organise a big cake
• 28th of March - go there and give them them all the stuff
• 28th of March - make some cool pictures

Create street art

There are endless ways how your street art could promote open standards. Think for a while about daily examples, funny or shocking ones, which could be portrayed on the street, and than take an action. It does not require a lot, just your imagination. Afterward, take picture of what you just have created and send it to us, so we can promote your work around the world. And who knows, you might inspire other artists and your work will became viral.

Street art could take a form of anything interesting and legal, such as installation of unexpected items, paintings of moss graffiti slogans ´I can´t read your documents´ before public administration building or spreading woolen graffiti.

Materials:

• creativity
• good spot on the street
• a photo camera

Timeline:

• several weeks before - think of the art work
• 1 weeks before - prepare your street art
• few days before - install or create your street art and take a picture of it
• 28th of March - publish the picture using the tag #dfd

Help us create posters

Help us produce some catchy posters that depict negative effects that use of closed standards have on peoples daily lives. It could be a picture of grandmother crying because she can not read her dairy written in .docx or anything you can imagine. The picture shall be accompanied with some appropriate slogan, such as ´Would you be able to read yours?´, and brief smaller text, which explains importance of the open standards.

Materials:

• interesting picture
• computer software to modify picture

Timeline:

• anytime until 22nd of March - send us your suggestions or drafts

Change your email signature

Ask people to change their e-mail signature for DFD.

Materials:

• Document Freedom Day - Liberate your documents
  http://documentfreedom.org/ - March 28th 2012

Timeline:

• be sure that before 28th of March, you change your email signature

Give a presentation

Give a presentation at a local Free Software user group about Open Standards.

Materials:

• DFD leaflets
• a presentation about Open Standards
• DFD Artwork

Timeline:

• 3 weeks before - be sure you have a room/place for your presentation
• 2 weeks before - start promotion that you will give a presentation
• 28th of March - give your presentation

Website translations and improvements

DFD is a global campaign. To help us make it a worldwide success, please read how to contribute your own translations and website improvements.

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